Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), an Amazon.com company (NASDAQ:AMZN),
shared today that more and more AWS customers, across virtually every
industry and geography, are running SAP applications on the AWS Cloud
and experiencing the agility, scalability, security, and cost savings of
the world’s most comprehensive cloud platform for their business
applications. Customers can launch entire enterprise software stacks
from SAP and run their businesses seamlessly – whether they want to use
AWS for development and test, or run their production SAP environments
on AWS. SAP has verified and certified various solutions for production
deployment on AWS, including S/4HANA, SAP Business Suite on HANA,
Business Warehouse on HANA, SAP HANA, SAP Business All-in-One, SAP
Business One, SAP BusinessObjects, SAP Database and Mobile Solutions. To
learn more about running SAP on AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com/sap.

“Enterprise usage of SAP on AWS is growing incredibly fast across all
verticals and geographies as enterprises get more comfortable running
their most important applications on AWS and the cloud,” said Terry
Wise, Vice President, Worldwide Partner Ecosystem, AWS. “Since becoming
the first public cloud platform to be certified to run SAP production
workloads in 2011, AWS has continued to innovate to deliver the
capabilities and operational performance enterprise customers need to
run their most critical business applications with confidence on the AWS
Cloud.”

General Electric (GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial Company,
transforming industry with software-defined machines and solutions that
are connected, responsive and predictive. GE Oil & Gas is pioneering the
company’s digital transformation, a key part of which is its journey to
the cloud. “At GE we have to tag, monitor, measure, and automate every
one of our business-critical applications and start to create patterns
that allow us to make those reusable. Using the AWS Cloud has
transformed how we approach this,” said Ben Cabanas, Chief Technology
Officer, GE Transportation and previous Cloud Architect for GE Oil &
Gas. “We are currently running more than half of our core applications
on AWS, including several SAP applications, such as SAP Hybris and SAP
BI. To date, we’ve achieved a 52 percent reduction in our total cost of
ownership due to using the AWS Cloud and plan to continue migrating
critical applications to AWS – our goal is to migrate at least 500 of
our applications.”

Founded in 1818, Brooks Brothers is a leading retailer of fashion wear
and accessories in the United States. “Using AWS to deploy and operate
our SAP environments makes us more nimble in our approach to launching
and testing new SAP software-based retail projects – reducing the time
it takes from weeks to hours,” said Sahal Laher, Executive Vice
President and CIO, Brooks Brothers. “Reducing our time to production
means we can get new initiatives to market faster, and if some things
aren’t providing the desired business results in pilot mode, we can
quickly shut those down, allowing us to put greater focus on initiatives
that drive revenue.”

Lionsgate is a diversified global entertainment company that produces
feature films and television programming for a worldwide audience. “We
have been using AWS for six years and have achieved significant savings
in infrastructure costs,” said Theresa Miller, CIO and Executive Vice
President, Information Technology, Lionsgate. “As a predominately SAP
shop, the ability to run SAP Business Suite and Business Warehouse on
AWS is very important for our enterprise IT, especially when it comes to
experimenting with new workloads. Running our IT infrastructure on AWS
lowers the traditional barriers that slow innovation, allowing us the
flexibility to spin-up and test new workloads in near real time. This
agility gives my team the confidence to try new things.”

Ferrara Candy Company was founded in 1908 and has become a $1 billion
confectionery company in the United States. “Following a merger of
Ferrara Pan Candy with Farley’s & Sathers, we were left with an
incoherent analytical environment. Our existing solutions could not
deliver timely, actionable business insight needed to make
business-critical decisions,” said Mustafa Mustafa, IT Director of
Business Intelligence and Application Development, Ferrara Candy
Company. “The ability to run SAP BusinessObjects on HANA in AWS enables
unparalleled agility for reports and analytics across our business.
Finance, sales, and operations teams now have easy access to full data
sets and the ability to analyze on demand, ensuring a streamlined
analytical process for making strategic, tactical, and operational
decisions. Our collaboration with AWS enabled us to scale our footprint
in-step with superior delivered value, a key AWS differentiator!”

About Amazon Web Services

For 10 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most
comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS offers over 70
fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, analytics,
mobile, Internet of Things (IoT) and enterprise applications from 33
Availability Zones (AZs) across 12 geographic regions in the U.S.,
Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Ireland, Japan, Korea, and Singapore.
AWS services are trusted by more than a million active customers around
the world – including the fastest growing startups, largest enterprises,
and leading government agencies – to power their infrastructure, make
them more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit http://aws.amazon.com.

About Amazon

Amazon.com opened on the World Wide Web in July 1995. The company is
guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor
focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and
long-term thinking. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized
recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct
Publishing, Kindle, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, and Alexa are
some of the products and services pioneered by Amazon. For more
information, visit www.amazon.com/about.

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